Word: garment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before shapely seconds rushed up with the garment, she posed a few in a pair of fetching scarlet trunks, and played it safe when asked about who the man in her life was. She gave even the darkest horse a sporting chance, so as "not to hurt anyone's feelings...
...aware of the background to New Deal labor legislation. He conceded that the abuses of power by employers had brought about the penalties which employers now suffered. He could recall the great Carnegie Steel battle at Homestead, the sweatshops of the Manhattan garment trade. He might have known something of the terror of workers in union-hating plants. But what he saw now was a counterrevolution and New Deal excesses...
...Screwball." In recent months labor had been lying low. But Joe was not fooled. It was with a very earnest intent to do something that Joe Ball wrote his labor laws. There were practical objections to some of them. Some industries, notably the garment trade, believed that industry-wide bargaining and the closed shop had brought peace and stability. In the once strife-torn garment industry there has not been an important strike in 14 years. Union leaders and even some employers predicted that Ball's bills would throw some industries into chaos. They referred to Ball...
Marie Leighton was adamant about airing. There was no better way to catch pneumonia, she said, than to wear a flannel garment that had not been properly warmed and aired. "And when it comes to things like chemises and drawers, which go next to the skin, it's always on the safe side to let them go on airing for the better part of a week." She was adamant on many points: furs mothproofed with pepper, the futility of female education, the social inadequacy of Unitarians. Robert Leighton, her husband, was unfortunately not only a Unitarian but a less...
...whether Buchman hadn't endorsed Hitler. Howard admitted that he once, naively, had endorsed the German Führer. But he emphasized M.R.A.'s record during the resistance and told me of a secret Gestapo document, 126 pages long, which condemns M.R.A. as being 'a Christian garment to world democratic aims...